U.S. companies: Treat loyal workers fairly

Both through the good years and the lean years, American workers have stood strong.

Corporations moving their operations out of the United States to other countries, such as China and Mexico, have lost sight of what, exactly, has made them so successful. In some cases, for 100 years or more, their products are second to none on the world stage.

First, they prospered in a country that allowed them to do so. Our constitutional republic form of government has allowed for their success.

In their obvious need for greed, they overlook and dismiss the one factor – the only factor – that has led to their success: a loyal workforce. Throughout their years of existence, corporate wheeling and dealing to appease their ever-needy – and greedy – shareholders and stockholders, and the demands of chairmen and boardrooms, American workers have stood by these companies, from shift to shift and arm-in-arm through some union strikes, which only brought employer and employee to a better place on the other side of the dispute.

Both through the good years and the lean years, American workers have stood strong and loyal to these companies – only now to be tossed aside for the promise of some future profit scheme in some other country.

Inevitably, in most cases these disenfranchised workers are forced to train the new foreign workforce using the threat of loss of benefits, severance pay, retirement and health coverage if they refuse to comply.

These companies need to continue to chase the “almighty dollar” utilizing the ever-loyal American workforce in America, where they have enjoyed such unparalleled success.